I'm not sure what the current state of law is. Morally speaking, I don't believe that people should be paying those kinds of fines for either downloading or up

I'm not sure what the current state of law is. Morally speaking, I don't believe that people should be paying those kinds of fines for either downloading or uploading in "casual" use ("casual" meaning that they're not original distributors of the material.) The judgments that I immediately recall are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAA_v._Tenenbaum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAA_v._Tenenbaum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_v._Thomas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_v._Thomas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMG_Music_v._Gonzalez http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMG_Music_v._Gonzalez